We heard a loud noise. And within a twinkle of an eye, the ceiling fell on our heads. There was confusion everywhere. We were in a meeting when the bomb went off”.

Yusifiyya Movement, also known as Boko Haram, yesterday, said it attacked the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja because United States (US) and the UN are supporting the Federal Government to persecute Muslims in Nigeria.

The Governor of Osun State, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, is inviting private investors all over the world to come up with viable proposals, aimed at developing tourism in the state, with a view to achieving the state government target of increasing its internally generated revenue to N7.5 billion by 2015.

Seven persons including a new-born baby and five women were on Friday killed while about 20 others went missing during a downpour that lasted several hours in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.

FBI agents have arrived in Nigeria following a suicide attack at UN headquarters in the capital Abuja that has left at least 19 people dead, a US embassy spokeswoman said Saturday.

For the first time, Sunday Vanguard is going beyond politicians to seek the opinion of academics and experts on the crisis of governance in Nigeria, and other issues of national interest. Today’s personality, Dr Austin Tam-George has degrees in Education, Industrial Relations and Cultural Studies. In 2007, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Witwatersrand South Africa, with research based on the Nigeria’s Niger Delta conflict.

It took just a sneak preview of BUDISO by Barrister Fred Agbeyegbe at the celebration of Prof. Wole Soyinka at 77 in furtherance of the newly conceived Living Legend Series for septuagenarians who have impacted the practice of theatre as part of National Association of Theatre Practitioners NANTAP, Lagos led by the shining light of Mr. Mufu Onifade to compel me into a must see of the full play.

If there is still any lingering unbelief that Nigeria has been very unlucky to be saddled with third-rate minds as leaders, the verbal scud missiles (some call it mutual pinging) which former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, and military dictator-turned civilian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, launched at each other must dispel such doubt.

Investments in the ports have gulped $822 million (or N123.3 billion) since 2006 when private terminal operators, otherwise known as concessionaires, began developing their various terminals for operations.

Frank Adekunle Macaulay is an actor and one of Nigeria’s top film makers whose works are aimed at carving a new image for Nigeria. The Pilot turned producer and director of movies who is a direct descendant of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther and Herbert Macaulay, had his primary education at Grange School and secondary education at Methodist Boys High School .